About us

Gydle is a privately held company founded in 2008 and located in Québec city, Canada. Its mission is to provide superior quality services in scientific data analysis applied to the fields of genomics, bioinformatics. Our customer base is worldwide and spans across life sciences markets, including human health, agriculture, forestry, bioproducts, bioassay and instrument development.

Management Team

Philippe Rigault President & CEO

Philippe has 23 years of international experience in management and research throughout the academic and private sectors. Graduated as Ingénieur de l'École Centrale de Paris (France), he worked as a research engineer in the team of Prof. Daniel Cohen at Généthon and CEPH (Paris & Evry, France), contributing to produce the first physical map of a human chromosome (Nature, 1992) and the first physical map of the whole human genome (Nature, 1995). In 1996, he joined Incyte Pharmaceuticals (Palo Alto, USA) as a senior scientist in research bioinformatics. In 1998, he became worldwide director of bioinformatics at Rhône-Poulenc Rorer pharmaceuticals (Hayward & Collegeville, USA, Dagenham, UK, Vitry s/Seine, France). From 2001 to 2004, he served as director of bioinformatics at Illumina (San Diego, USA). From 2004 to 2008, he was a researcher and directed the bioinformatics platform at the Centre de Recherche du CHUL (Québec city, Canada).